#here i go putting it in the cosmere tag again

[taravangians-storming-balls]

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#i am RIGHT #!! #firemossposting #cosmere #here i go putting it in the cosmere tag again

[louwhose]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

Thanks for the tag @cooking-with-hailstones!!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

uh. 57. not at all prolific.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

234,707

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly for Breath of the Wild or Ocarina of Time in the Legend of Zelda, though I've done a couple for different games. Other than that Dwight in Shining Armor, that one random cosmere one, Spy X Family, and Miraculous.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Semblance of a Sentiment

Fall Under Your Spell

One Little Scare Ought To Do You Some Good

HERO x FAMILY

Link's Lawn Mowing Service

deliberately ignoring the sxf ones because I'm not that into the fandom anymore and it's so much more popular that I feel that skews things

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I used to. I should start again. I'm just... lazy.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Ooh. Oh. Oh, uh that's actually a tought one. Well, if I had to say angstiest it would have to be Even Though You're Not Here. Though there are definitely a couple other contenders.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Hard to say. I have plenty, but my favorite ones tend to be at least bittersweet, but let's go with... Reading Between the Lines (../.-../---/...-/./-.--/---/..-)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

The closest is once (for my tiny fandom actually) I got a comment that was like "I didn't like this." So I just deleted the comment.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

No

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I do not. The closest I come is putting characters in a different universe that I love.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I did one with @linktheacehero! And I like to rp, so I could theoretically have more in the future... if one ever gets finished, that is.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Zelink. Without a doubt. They just claimed the brainrot about a year and eight months ago and haven't relinquished it yet and I kinda doubt they're gonna.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

A botw au where it starts in a hyrule equivalent to the 1920s. The first chapter is one of the first things I wrote, but I am no longer satisfied with it but some simple edits aren't enough to fix my issues with it so I don't know what to do with it at the moment. I'd ideally love to fix it or restart it or something so that I can get to the parts I want to but I'm just not sure what is going to become of it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Um... horrible at analyzing my own writing, but I really like the way I am able to do prose sometimes.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Complex stories? Maintaining momentum for a multichapter fic? The biggest thing I feel is doing any sort of action, because I like to spend too much time either in a character's head or in the dialogue.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Cool if you can do it. I can't.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Miraculous Ladybug. Sometimes I miss the fandom, but it's just not the same anymore.

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

It's gotta be When Things Cease to Flow. Probably weird for most people since it's second person POV but I love it because it just works so well for me. Probably the fic I've written I've reread the most.

No pressure but tagging (and sorry if you've already been tagged) @linktheacehero @angelicgarnet @whogirl2011 @deiliamedlini and um. er. whoever else wants to.

#tag game #lou writes

[cabin12kid]

I haven't technically finished the epilogues but I need to vent some Lost Metal feelings.

Also apologies I spouted shit on Twitter too forgetting I could do so one here with spoilers better tagged/hidden.

Also belatedly will add spoilers for Oathbringer and Rhythm of War.

So off the bat I just want to say Wayne just died for me and I'm not even finished with Marasi's epilogue and I'm still upset so that'll likely color all of this.

Genuinely though? This book sucked for me as a cosmere fan. I joke how I just chose the wrong bitches with Elhokar and Teft but like... This is becoming a consistent thing.

Having a character go through their arc and then die at the end of that book has never been satisfying to me. Having them die in a gut-wrenching dramatic way doesn't do any extra good for me, it actively makes the situation worse.

Elhokar's death was meant to be this could-have-been tragedy, and I admit that most of my personal feelings on it are incredibly biased options. Detaching from my attachment to Elhokar, I can see how this was a fairly well done tragedy. Allowing for a bit of attachment though, but not completely flying into a blind biased rage, I do however feel that it was unnecessary. I understand not wanting to bring back too many characters lest death feel cheap, but I still feel like Elhokar would have served better as an example of how people can grow in that series.

Teft is by far the worst out of all of these for me. His arc was incredibly fucking rushed and felt like an afterthought most of the time. We saw him take a huge, powerful, emotional step in Oathbringer, only for his presence in Rhythm of War to feel very "all better now!" and not having much further use for him, killing him off. Personally, I feel like we already understood the horror of this new weapon through Navani. And Moash using this to further press Kaladin into literally offing himself-- actually that's a separate rant. The biggest thing though, is it-- to me-- left Teft's death ultimately feeling cheap. I could see it coming a mile away, it felt like this character was thrown away, and ultimately I don't think it was fucking necessary? Like I genuinely would not have been this mad if Teft had just randomly been pushed to the background. Which fucking sucks. That is NOT the kind of emotions I think you want readers to feel for what should have been an emotional character death.

With Elhokar I felt cheated, but I understood. With Teft, I felt even more cheated and felt his whole arc was simply discarded. Mentally thinking the I Don't Want To Play With You Anymore levels of discarded.

Now, Wayne. This wasn't nearly as bad as Teft and he was given more time than Elhokar. But for me it still suffers the same problem. I'm repeating myself, but having a character go through their arc only for them to end up dead isn't inherently satisfying. Quite frankly, as I write this, I am so gutted that I don't really care what happens next. There were so many interesting possibilities posed throughout this book both for Scadrial and the rest of the cosmere, but quite frankly I don't have it in me to care. I'm gutted. I feel too much despair (and disappointment as well as anger) to bring myself to care. And hopefully that'll change as I take time to process but like? Genuinely?

Elhokar made me want to stop my OB read for a month. Teft almost made me put down the cosmere for good. Wayne? I've resigned myself to be too interested in the world building and writing lessons to put down the cosmere, but genuinely I'm worried I won't actually, deeply care about the stories or the characters going forward. It'll be interesting, but more like watching a lecture for a subject I kinda like instead of really feeling the universe. Investing in it, if I may. And as such... Lost Metal was a bust for me.

Again I hope my feelings change as I go through it, but this...sucks. plain and simple.

This feeling definitely dropped a whole star for me. It made me genuinely disappointed in the writing, which I hate to say and cannot stress enough hope I get over but like. Genuinely I no longer trust Sanderson to write deaths. Period. I'll probably try to make a separate posts on the deaths that were fucking great and satisfying despite being equally gutting but I need to grieve. But there is one other problem.

Honestly? A good portion of this book felt like I was reading a cosmere textbook with a gun to my head. Or a manual to stop the detonation. Like. There are TONS of really cool and interesting tie ins for the rest of the cosmere. The Emperor's Soul is my favorite Cosmere work so this was a huge fucking W for me. But also? It felt... Too much. And like. Yeah they were necessary in the situations they were put in, but they didn't feel strictly necessary.

This was an infinity war type mash up I was hoping for, but in the end it just felt... Too much. Like there wasn't ever time to really process everything. It was one punch after another and no time to like. Appreciate any of it.

I'm burning out tho and that's basically all I can say without going in circles but yeah as it stands, unfortunately, this not only has to be the worst Mistborn Era 2 book for me it also is sitting at an even 3/5 stars.

#tlm spoilers #the lost metal #the lost metal spoilers #oathbringer spoilers #rhythm of war spoilers #kaydspeak #neg

[akpaleyreblogs]

Welcome to the Allison Just Blogs Here hour.

So I have. Started watching some of these again I used to watch them a lot, it’s what resulted in me running the game the first time as a young adult instead of doing something else to stay in touch with folks, was having Opinions about shit Matt Coleville said. Nowadays I get anxious half the time when I engage with how-to D&D content, I get in my head and overly critical about my own work, but I’ve been watching some of these again and I feel like this is maybe. Really Important?

Like not “you should have fun when you write and run the game,” clearly I figured that one out, but in the middle it talks about tension. If you want to write something and you’re not feeling it it’s usually about lack of tension. And that one is. Crazy important, I think, for me personally.

I’ve been sitting here trying to script a video where I’m relaying information and it’s not going anywhere because 1) I don’t have anything unique to say and 2) I’m not arguing a point. And I think this is maybe the reason to write critical content I’ve been on the fence about writing, or write something that’s a huge fucking meme but entertains me, or write some older stuff that I have specific points to make about even though it’s not in the weird place I’ve for some reason decided to pigeonhole myself into. Which maybe means I’m about to throw away a couple weeks of work (though as long as I hang onto it it’s not REALLY thrown away, and if a way to make it something I care about comes to me I will) and that’s not my favorite thing, but.

I don’t want to be writing essays that don’t contribute anything to the conversation or mean anything to anyone?

I wrote and researched The Cosmere Basics because Spencer found all the similar resources for learning about that kind of stuff inadequate, he wasn’t learning, and he wanted the information. That MEANS something. I wrote the radiant honor video because I couldn’t stop rambling around that point at all my fandom friends who would let me, that wanted to be made. The couple things I’ve been trying to script currently are just information. Who needs this information? Who does this serve? Who will care if they’re not already invested enough in the minutia of this fandom to know most of it anyway? At least The Cosmere Basics is substantial work to track down comprehensively even as a long time fan and required use of a lot of extratextual resources to do. 

I don’t want to just. Make shit to make shit, I guess. It won’t be good? So I need to consume more and read more and go have more things to have thoughts or feelings or opinions about or else doing YouTube is stupid and I should just be burning through video tutorials like crazy. I can develop a brand and put funny character drawings in things without talking only about one or two topics. If I’m any good people will care anyway as long as I’m smart about tagging things and posting stuff when it’s topical, and if I’m not this was never going to be anything anyway. 

I’m gonna go pull out some ideas I actually care about and find some books to read on narrative construction and film theory now, bye. 

#I just blog here sometimes I guess #I mean this isn't the first time #this is the terribly informal blog #it's allowed

[simmancy]

Simself Tag

I’ve been tagged by @simsplyirresistible​, and in return I'm tagging..... @prism-pop​, @samssims​, and @lizillasimming. You guys don’t have to do this if you don’t want to, of course!!

rules: post a photo of your simself, answer these questions and tag some simblrs.

favorite season: Either Spring or Autumn!! I love the smells of spring, and I genuinely enjoy rainy days.......... And Autumn is just so COZY and I love the colors.

favorite books / author: Y I K E S okay here we go. I’m really big into YA and fantasy.

I devoured GRRM’s A Song of Ice and Fire and I’m so friggin’ pissed that Winds of Winter isn’t here because I N E E D to KNOW, GRRM. In the meantime, I’ve been reading Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere works--The Stormlight Archive is INSANE, there’s two books out now and a third comes this month, they’re all huge doorstoppers. But Sanderson never stops working, so props to him.

I’m a big fan of Libba Bray’s supernatural historical series--I’d pick A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle trilogy) over The Diviners, I think, but I need to start Before the Devil Breaks You to give a conclusive answer. The Gemma Doyle trilogy definitely had better covers though, ngl.

The Grisha trilogy and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo were amazing, though I need to start Crooked Kingdom. And don’t get me STARTED on how fucking amazing A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab was. That whole trilogy was mental. V.E. Schwab might be my favorite author today, but I’m always so wary of putting labels on things!!!

My other big favs are Pride & Prejudice (y’all know the incomparable Jane Austen, my fav 19th century author) , The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (which I still annually read in the summer for some reason? I used to bring it to the beach and ward off people with it lmao), Walden by Henry David Thoreau, The Harry Potter series.... 

favorite song: AGAIN this is bad, I ramble so much guys. I don’t know if I have a favorite song over all. My huge playlist is here on spotify, if you want to torture yourself with my love of pop music.

Umm. Okay, favorite songs right now, like “stop everything guys THIS IS MY JAM”:

“Havana” by (mi reina cubana) Camila Cabello

“Disco Tits” by Tove Lo

“Bodak Yellow” by Cardi B

“New Rules” by Dua Lipa

everything off of E MO TION by Carly Rae Jepsen

“Way Beyond” by Bastille (okay, okay anything by Bastille)

And I’ve honestly been listening to a TON of 80s-90s jams lately, what with Stranger Things 2 and it being autumn and everything.

favorite food & drink: I love tea of all kinds. Favorite food is probably french fries? I love chicken cutlets and bacon too.... Fried foods in general.

dogs or cats: as a cat owner I feel compelled to say cats. I love both though, don’t get me wrong. But I am a cat myself, so.... yup.

#tag meme #simself